Frontier Tower is turning a high-rise into stacked housing, work, and community space for AI, crypto, biotech, and longevity builders.
Unlike rotating popups, the bet is permanence inside an existing city rather than a remote campus.
It is often framed as a blueprint for inter-city network societies that stay plugged into a major metro.
A 16-floor San Francisco tower converting into a vertical coliving village for frontier tech builders.
A self-governed vertical village in a 16-floor building in San Francisco, serving as a lab for frontier technologies.
Open-minded, curious people interested in frontier technologies like AI, biotech, crypto, or arts & music.
How is the tower organized?
Most floors are divided by field of work. Others are common convenience spaces.
Floor 16. d/acc lounge for cross pollination.
Floor 15. Coworking and library.
Floor 12. Ethereum and decentralized tech.
Floor 11. Health and longevity.
Floor 10. Frontier @ Accelerate.
Floor 9. AI and autonomous systems.
Floor 8. Neuro and biotech.
Floor 7. Frontier maker space.
Floor 6. Arts and music.
Floor 5. Movement floor and fitness center.
Floor 4. Robotics and hard tech.
Floor 3. Private offices.
Floor 2. Event and hackathon space.
Floor 1. Co-living 1.
Floor 0. Entrance.
Location
- Frontier Tower is located at 995 Market Street, in downtown San Francisco
- The next location for a Frontier Tower is chosen according to a competition between cities
Duration
- Frontier Tower runs permanently as a co-living and co-working place for members, though the residency program is yet to be launched
Pricing
- • $190/month billed monthly
- • Access to the spaces
Founding Citizen
- • $150/month billed annually
- • Access to the spaces, special voting rights, and priority access to events
- • $500/month billed monthly
- • Access to the spaces, special voting rights, and discounted hotel stays
- • Builders under 25, as well as university teachers, students, and researchers can apply for a scholarship
Amenities
Co-working spaces
- • Workshops, hackathons and events
- • Frontier Tower doesn't provide accommodation yet
24/7 secure access
- • Audiovisual setup and lighting
- • Access to all Frontier Tower amenities and event spaces
- • Wellness perks: kombucha, premium coffee, and healthy snacks
- • To lease an office, one must also have an active Founding Citizenship
History
Frontier Tower is inspired by the fall of the Berlin Wall
In the 1990s, tens of thousands of people left East Berlin, leaving unoccupied buildings which came to serve as hubs for creative communities to emerge
In 2025, Deep Ink Ventures and Berlinhouse materialized this vision and bought the 16-story building for $11 million
Throughout the first year, the place hosted network state-related events, like the Viva Frontier Tower pop-up village, and is expected to launch a residency program soon
Posts
Ashlee Vance
@ashleevance
Last year, three German dudes bought a abandoned office tower in downtown SF. They've since turned it into the most tech-infused office in the world in the form of Frontier Tower.
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@olivercingl
Frontier Tower has got to be the coolest place I've been to in SF. 16 floors full of builders, humanoid robots, longevity stuff, anything you can think of. You can just work on something on one floor, you have a question about AI, go to the AI floor to get help, then you need help with robotics so you go the robotics floor.
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@frontiertower
The real reason founders move to SF isn't the capital. It's the hallway conversations. So we built a hallway.
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